Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-19

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middle of the night and before he could
call the police was robbed of his tools.
is not true. People who have no high
er aim in life than the peddling about
of such improbable yarns would do well
to ascertain the truth of these reports
before giving them circulation.
The story that Mr.. Gould once killed
steer and presented his hoofs to the
poor with the remark that il would
help to keep sole and body together,
also turned out to have no foundation
whatever in fact but was set ahoat by
an English wag who was passionately
fond of bit of pleasantly. don't you
know.
Thus 1t Is that the man who has ac-
CURED competence by means of hon
est toll becomes the target for the
barbed shaft of contumely.
Mr.. Gould is said to be good con-
versationalist. though he prefers to
close his eyes and lister to others.
Nothing pleases him better than to lure
a man on and draw him out and en-
courage him to turn his mind wrong
side out and empty it. He then richly
repays this confidence by saying that If
it doesn't rain any more we will have
q long dry time. The man then goes
away inflated with the idea that he has
pointer from Mr.. Gould which will
materially affect values. A great
many men are playing croquet at the
poor-house this summer who owe their
prosperity to tips given them by Mr..
Gould.
As fair sample of the way story
about a great man grows and becomes
distorted at the same time. one Incl
dent will be sufficient. Some years
ago, it is sad Mr.. Gould bought gen.
eraj. admission ticket to hear Sarah
Bernhardt as Camille. Several gentle
men who were sitting near where he
stood asked him why he did not take
seat. Instead of answering directly
that he could not get one he replied
that he did not care for seat, as he
wanted TO be near the door when the
| building fell. Shortly after this he had
more seats than he could USE | give
this story simply to illustrate how such
thing may be distorted. for upon in
vestgation it was found to have occur
red at Patti concert. and not at a
Bernhardt exhibition at all.
Mr.. Gould's career, with its attend
ant success, should teach us two things,
at least. One is that it always pays to
do kind act, for a great deal of his
large fortune has been amassed by
assisting men like MIR. Field, when
they were in tight place, and taking
their depressed stock off their hands
while in a shrunken condition, He be-
lieves also that the merciful man is
merciful to his stock.
He says he owes much of his success
in life to economy and neuralgia Ho
also loves to relieve distress on Wal
street, and is SO passonately fond OF
this as he grows older that he has been
known TO distress other stock men just
for the pleasant thrill it gave him tc
relieve them.
Jay Gould is also living illustration
OF wha. young man may do will
nothing but his bare hands in America.
John l.. Sullivan and Gould are both
that wav. Mr.. Gould and Col. Sulli,
van could 60 into Siberia to- morrow
little as they are known there-and
with a small Gordon press. quire OF
bond paper and Il pair of three penny.
weight gloves they would soon own
Siberia, with right of way across the
rest of Europe and first mortgage Oh
| the Russian throne. As fast as Col
Sullivan knocked out dynasty Jay
could come in and administer on the es-
tate. This would be powerful com.
bnation. 1t would afford us an oppor-
tunity also TO get some of those Rus
san hay-fever names and chilblains by
red message. Mr. Gould would get a
good deal of money out of the iransac.
ton and Sullivan would get ozone
Bill Ayc, in NeV York. World.